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24 Venom Coloring Pages and Free PDF Printables
Free printable Venom coloring pages — the symbiote, Eddie Brock, Carnage and the Spider-Man fights. Colouring tips for that black body, free PDF download.
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What is Venom?
Venom is a Marvel character who first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #300 in 1988: an alien symbiote that bonds with disgraced journalist Eddie Brock and turns him into a seven-foot black monster with a mouth full of teeth. On film, Tom Hardy has played him across three movies — Venom (2018), Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021) and Venom: The Last Dance (2024), which ended the trilogy with the symbiote sacrificing itself to keep the symbiote god Knull imprisoned.
The character is a gift for colouring and a nightmare at the same time. A gift because the design is almost entirely black and white, with huge shapes and one enormous white spider emblem on the chest. A nightmare because "almost entirely black" is the hardest thing on a colouring page to get right.
Who and what you will be colouring
| Character | Symbiote colour | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Venom | Black | White spider emblem, white eyes, red tongue |
| Carnage | Red | Black veining over the red, wilder shape |
| Anti-Venom | White | The inverse of Venom: white body, black markings |
| Agent Venom | Military green and grey | Tactical gear over the symbiote |
| Toxin | Blue | Bonded to Detective Mulligan |
| Agony | Pink-purple | Dr. Payne's speedster symbiote in The Last Dance |
| Knull | Black and red | The symbiote creator, "King of the Black" |
How to colour a black character
This is the whole problem with Venom pages, so start here. Filling the body with one black pencil produces a silhouette — you lose the muscles, the veins and the whole shape of the character.
Use three blacks, not one. A charcoal near-black for the main body, true black only in the deepest shadows (under the jaw, between muscle groups, inside the mouth), and a faint blue-black or green-black on the highest surfaces to suggest the symbiote's wet sheen. This is what makes the body look like liquid rather than a filled-in shape.
The spider emblem is the page's anchor. It is the only large light value on an otherwise dark design, so it needs to be clean. Use a warm off-white rather than a cold blue-white, or it reads as a hole cut in the paper. Keep every leg the same width. If the chest is drawn at an angle, the foreshortening of the spider matters more than any other detail.
The tongue needs warmth. Pink-red at the base, moving toward a deeper red at the tip, slightly darker underneath. It sits against the cool black of the jaw, and that temperature contrast is what makes it read as wet without any special technique.
Leave the drool and the tendrils light. Real saliva catches light. A very pale warm grey, barely darker than the paper, is more convincing than white marker.
Venom coloring pages FAQ
Why is Venom black?
He is a symbiote — an alien organism that needs a host. Its natural form is a black liquid, and the black skin, white eyes and white spider emblem are how the comics and films show that it is not a costume but a living thing wrapped around a person.
Is the Venom film series finished?
The Tom Hardy trilogy ended with Venom: The Last Dance in 2024, which killed the symbiote and closed Eddie Brock's story. The film also introduced Knull, the creator of all symbiotes, and its mid-credits scene has him vowing revenge — so the character has been set up to return without Eddie. No further film has been confirmed.
Why does the spider emblem look different on some pages?
Because it has changed. In the comics, Venom's chest spider has been drawn several ways over four decades, and the 2018 film used a design closer to Spider-Man's logo than some earlier comic versions. Pages drawn from different sources will not match each other exactly.
Are these official Venom coloring pages?
No. These are fan-made coloring pages. Venom and all related characters are owned by Marvel, with film rights held by Sony Pictures. These pages are not licensed or endorsed by either company and are not official merchandise. They are free printable fan art for personal and classroom use.
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